1973: Hochries Mountain UFO Encounter

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: December 10, 1973

Sighting Time: 6:20 p.m. | 8:30 p.m.

Day/Night: Night

Location: Ouzouer-sur-Loire, France |  Hochries, Germany 

Urban or Rural: – Rural

Hynek Classification: CE-I (Close Encounter I) Observation of an object in close proximity to the witness (i.e. within 500’)

Duration:  two hours

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s): 5 meter tall | 9 meters in diameter and 12-14 meters tall

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): cone-shaped | ovoid 

Color of Object(s): The top portion looked like a yellow dome. Four rows of colored lights (red, green, blue, and white) rotated counterclockwise around the lower portion.

Number of Witnesses:

Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2), p. 47).

Full Report

About 6:20 p.m. local time in Ouzouer-sur-Loire, France a 50-year-old couple, several other witnesses, and gendarmes watched a silent, 5 meter tall cone-shaped UFO only 20 meters from the ground fly away toward the southwest.

Two hours after that, at about 8:30 p.m. in Hochries, Germany near the Austrian-Bavarian border, Friedrich Lennartz, 33, and Peter Zettel, 29, had a close encounter of the second kind when a multi-colored, ovoid UFO responded to a red signal rocket they had fired to get the UFO’s attention. The UFO had been hovering near a mountain ski resort with the pointed end up.

Its size was estimated as 9 meters in diameter and 12-14 meters tall. The top portion looked like a yellow dome. Four rows of colored lights (red, green, blue, and white) rotated counterclockwise around the lower portion.

They experienced loud static on their short wave radio as the UFO changed color to a dazzling red, made a 90-degree turn, and sped toward the witnesses, traveling 5-6 kilometers in 10 seconds.

It hovered close to their mountain for two more hours as their dogs whimpered to be let into the cabin, then shot upward at a steep angle at “breakneck speed.”